Improved medical compound



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Letters Patent N 94,616, dated September 7 1869.

IMPROVED MEDICAL COMPOUND.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the name.

/'0 all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that 1,1). lnmunnn, of Apple Creek, in thc-county of Wayne, and State of Ohio, have iuvented a new and useful Medical Compound; and I do hereby declare that-the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same.

My invention consists in the combination of brown sugar with thorn-apple and saltpetre, in such a way as to cure astlnna by inhalation, without producing any of the bad feeling or effects occasioned by the use of the thorn-apple 'or sfmmonium alone, the combination of these constituent partsproducing the desired effect, which ncitherof itself will do, and can be used at all times by every class of the afiiicted, not only for asthma, but for all manner of throat and lung discases.

I am aware that thorn-apple has'heen used in asthma before, but it has been used only in spasmodic asthma, and only during the paroxysin, and by its use vertigo and nausea. are produced.

Instead of these results, by the above combination and the manner of using it, the patient is permanently cured without any of the bad or dangerous effects produced by the thorn-apple taken or used alone.

The use of saltpctro alone, or when combined with thethorn-apple, will not produce such results, either by inhalation or by smoking, as the above combination.

Sugar of itself, perhaps, is as powerful an expectorant as can be found, where it comes in contact with the secretive glands, and, in combination with the thorn-apple and saltpotre, performs a most important oflioe in preparing the diseased organs for the remedial influence of the othcringrcdients of the compound. Herein consists the novel discovery of my invention, which I have tested by operating upon myself, having been afiliotod with tho usthn'ia for twenty-fire years.

adding the sugar the case is different, the patient get-s immediate relief, and no evil consequences follow.

The ingredients are mixed in about the following proportions, viz:

One and one-quarter parts of brown sugar.

One part, by weight, of thorn-apple leaves.

One and one-half parts of saltpetre.

Three pints of water.

The mode of preparation is to dissolve the saltpetre in the water, then add the brown sugar, and then the thoru-apple'leaves. Let thewhole soak for the space of twelve hours. Then put it in a dry place, and allow the mixture to evaporate until the compound is sufl"1- cicntly dry to pulverize or grind through a mill, when it is lit for use,

The method of using it is to ignite a portion of it with a coal of fire, or otherwise, and for the patient to inhale the vapor therefrom.

Claim.

Having thus fullydescribed my invention,

What I claim therein as new, and desire to' secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-named article, or its equivalent, in combination with the two ingredients as herein specified.

' D. LANGELL.

Witnesses:

J. A. CASNER, F. UASNER. 

